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My hen has a big swollen eye with a white look to it (pus?). I took her to the vet and he said it's an ulcer and that he wanted "about" $600 to remove her eye. I know from past experience that these vets charge like wounded bulls. I'm not prepared to spend that sort of money on one chicken...

I went to the bird shop today to get some food and as usual I looked in all of the aviaries and talked to the shop birds.... One of the lorikeets in the outside aviaries came straight over to me. I talked to him for a bit, then walked off, then went back again. He was having a bath, but when...

Kelly has acquired a wound today, it is a gaping wound above her tail. It looks as if her tail feathers got pulled down and it ripped a jagged tear (that's what it looks like to me and I don't know a lot about how chooks are put together. If I lift her tail feathers, it seems to close the...

I finally got around to replacing the bedding in my little girls' coop (it's been hot and I lost my helper so it went a bit longer than normal). Nice fresh wood shavings down. I decided not to use shavings in their nest boxes, but to use artificial grass. I quite like it because you can pick...

I have 2 chicken houses and runs because when I got my little fancy bantams my existing big girl isa brows were mean to them. I couldn't be bothered trying to get them to like each other and didn't want the little ones to be picked on by the big meanies. Anyway, time has passed and I've lost 2...

These chicks were born around 31 august 2017. They are cross-breed, part-araucana. The lady i got the eggs from said she should be able to tell me what they are at around 10 weeks which is coming up soon.... Meanwhile, has anyone got any ideas as to whether boys or girls? The little lavender...

My hen has hatched some chicks, I just went down to check on them and she'd left the next (4 still unhatched). One chick was lying there, he'd been pecked on the head. Another was lying out in the run and she was down in the run with the other 2 under her. I returned her and the 3 to the nest...

(Yes, I've been watching Monk :D) I've been popping out to the run to fling some crumble for the chicks because everything got rained on, including the tray on the feeder. I left the run door open behind me because it would only take a minute. All of a sudden, Grace leaps into the air and...

I'm curious..... I was outside today and organising a new waterer and feeder in the run that the chicks can easily reach (and that I don't have to refill every 10 minutes). One was trying to get at the feeder from the back, but it was too high (it's up on a paver, in the hope that they won't...

I got up this morning to find that my 2 silkies had taken all of the chicks (hatched 4 days ago) out into the run. I didn't think too much about that, but when I got back from an outing, I found them out in the run (of course, duh). That's what happened last time I let some clucky girls hatch...

Impatience is my middle name..... Babies just hatched. Mother apparently araucana, father could be a variety of potential dads. Could be mixed breed. Anyone got any suggestions for what mix is in there? I spoke to the lady I got the eggs from and said that one of them was yellow. She said...

I have 2 male king quail (which the internet tells me are also called chinese painted quail) who live in with my budgerigars in an aviary outside. I haven't had quail before, and I've had them maybe 6 months, something like that (I'm hopeless at time - long enough where they are settled in, not...

My coop has gaps at the top, under the roof. Climate is hot, usually dry (very dry, constant drought), but if there's heavy rain, with wind (which we've been having, lately), rain does blow in from this side (west - the other side is covered by the run roof, this side is the back of the coop...

I've done something impetuous and now I'm neurotically thinking of how it will turn out badly. Last time I had my 2 girls (in avatar) go determinedly clucky, so I got them some fertile eggs to sit on. That all worked out well, they just acted as a team all through. I've just realised with 3...

I have 2 new young leghorn-cross hens in with my "big girls". They were supposed to be about 12 weeks when I bought them a few weeks ago. They are quite small compared to some of the big girls, one is bigger than the other, she may be a little older, I don't know. ANYWAY, I bought this new...

I have a group of bantams with one black copper maran. She was hatched together with her "sisters", silkies and smaller chooks back in November (or around then). Her eggs are obvious. They are dark, and bigger than the little girls' eggs. I've seen on them scratch marks, like they've been...

So, I have 2 new young girls in with some of my other chooks. I put them up on the roost the first night, but the next night all of the girls spread out so there was no room for them (without shoving them up, and I don't think they would have liked that). Today, I installed another roost and I...

So, I've got 2 new young girls (i was told about 12 weeks). They're in their own little house separate at the moment. I want them to join up with my "big girls" and I was thinking I'd move another girl from the "little girls'" coop in with the big girls, too. (I had the big girls, and then I...

I've suddenly got a "premium member" banner thing on my details, but I'm not a premium member as far as I know (whatever that is).

I know it's probably too early, but I'm impatient and curious. I've read a lot of information as to what to look for and believe that it's probably pointless trying to know what the silkies are until they crow or not, but is it possible to get any ideas about the other chicks? They started...